Children of Strangers

by Lyle Saxon

Overview

Life on a Louisiana plantation during the early decades of the century. The interactions among the plantation-owning whites, the black sharecroppers, and the half-breed mulattoes make a powerful and moving story.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780882893976
Publisher:	Pelican Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date:	08/31/1989
Edition description:	Pelican Paperback Edition
Pages:	312
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x (d)
Age Range:	15 - 17 Years

About the Author

Lyle Saxon (1891-1946) ranks among Louisiana's most outstanding writers. During the 1920s and 1930s he was the central figure in the regionís literary community, and was widely known as a raconteur and bon vivant. In addition to Father Mississippi, Lafitte the Pirate, and Children of Strangers, he also wrote Fabulous New Orleans, Old Louisiana, The Friends of Joe Gilmore, and was a co-author of Gumbo Ya-Ya, with Edward Dreyer and Robert Tallant. During the Depression, he directed the state WPA Writers Project, which produced the WPA Guide to Louisiana and the WPA Guide to New Orleans.


Chance Harvey was a student at Tulane University when she came across a collection of letters addressed to Lyle Saxon. These letters began a fascination with Saxon that led her to a life-long passion and resulted in Saxon's biography, The Life and Selected Letters of Lyle Saxon, also published by Pelican. Harvey resides in Tylertown, Mississippi.